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Overtone crystal oscillating circuit
Assignee: Toshiba Corp
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Filing: 1980-09-26
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Granted: 1983-03-15
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Expires: 2000-09-26
Abstract
Abstract An overtone crystal oscillating circuit is disclosed which includes a complementary MOS inverter formed of P and N channel MOS transistors, a crystal resonator and a feedback resistor which are connected between input and output terminals of the complementary MOS inverter, and first and second capacitors respectively connected to the input and output terminals of the complementary MOS inverter. The crystal oscillating circuit is further provided with a series circuit formed of an inductor and a capacitor and connected in parallel with the first or second capacitor to form a parallel resonant circuit.
Inventors
- 👤 Eiji Masuda
- 👤 Shigemi Sakamoto
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-10-31 18:12
CPC Classifications
H; H03; H03K; H03K3/00; H03K3/02; H03K3/353; H03K3/354; H03K3/3545; H03B; H03B5/00; H03B5/30; H03B5/32; H03B5/36; H03B5/364
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
88 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit comprising: a first complementary MOS inverter circuit having input and output terminals; a crystal resonator connected between the input and output terminals of said inverter circuit; resistive means connected between the input and output terminals of said inverter circuit; first and second capacitances respectively connected to the input and output terminals of said inverter circuit; and a series circuit, including inductance and capacitance, which is connected in parallel with one of said first and second capacitances thereby to form a parallel resonating circuit.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
88 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit comprising: a first complementary MOS inverter circuit having input and output terminals; a crystal resonator connected between the input and output terminals of said inverter circuit; resistive means connected between the input and output terminals of said inverter circuit; first and second capacitances respectively connected to the input and output terminals of said inverter circuit; and a series circuit, including inductance and capacitance, which is connected in parallel with one of said first and second capacitances thereby to form a parallel resonating circuit.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
32 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 1 wherein said parallel resonating circuit has a resonating frequency an odd number of times higher than a fundamental frequency of said crystal resonator.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
35 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 1 wherein said complementary MOS inverter circuit is comprised of P and N channel MOS transistors of which the channel lengths are each less than 5 μm.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
25 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 1 or 2 wherein at least one of said first and second capacitances includes a variable capacitor.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
16 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 4 wherein said inductance includes a variable inductor.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
18 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 1 or 2 wherein said inductance includes a variable inductor.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
22 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 1 or 2 wherein said crystal resonator is electrically shielded by a shielding member.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
45 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 1 or 2 further comprising a second complementary MOS inverter circuit which is connected to the output terminal of said first complementary MOS inverter circuit to amplify the output signal from said first complementary MOS inverter circuit.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
16 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 8 wherein said inductance includes a variable inductor.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
31 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 1 or 2 wherein said first capacitance includes a stray capacitance associated with the input terminal of said first complementary CMOS inverter circuit.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
31 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 1 or 2 wherein said second capacitance includes a stray capacitance associated with the output terminal of said first complementary CMOS inverter circuit.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
28 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 1 or 2 wherein said series circuit having said inductance and capacitance is connected in parallel with said first capacitance.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
28 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 1 or 2 wherein said series circuit having said inductance and capacitance is connected in parallel with said second capacitance.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
43 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 1 or 2 further comprising a logic gate circuit which is connected to the output terminal of said first complementary MOS inverter circuit to amplify the output signal from said first complementary MOS inverter circuit.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
19 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 14 wherein said logic gate circuit includes a NAND gate circuit.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
19 words
An overtone crystal oscillating circuit according to claim 14 wherein said logic gate circuit includes a NOR gate circuit.
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